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session_id: "1325061"
title: "12-Factor-Factories: Design Patterns for Agentic Coding"
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# Links: 12-Factor-Factories: Design Patterns for Agentic Coding

## Speaker

**Dexter Horthy**, CEO and co-founder of HumanLayer, now part of Factory

- Site: [The Outer Loop](https://theouterloop.substack.com/)
- X: [@dexhorthy](https://x.com/dexhorthy)

## Company

**[HumanLayer](https://www.humanlayer.dev/)**: "A multiplayer coding agent IDE
and cloud" (from the site). It joined **[Factory](https://factory.ai/)**, which
builds "AI coding agents" (Factory Droids), a week before the talk.

## Resources

- **Manifesto** · [No AI Slop: A Manifesto](https://www.slopmanifesto.com/).
  The anti-slop manifesto the talk announces, written with Code Summit speakers
  and attendees; he is among the signers.
- **Paper** · [SlopCodeBench: Benchmarking How Coding Agents Degrade Over Long-Horizon Iterative Tasks](https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.24755)
  (arXiv, March 2026, UW-Madison). The benchmark the talk cites.
- **Repo** · [SprocketLab/slop-code-bench](https://github.com/SprocketLab/slop-code-bench).
  The benchmark's code and rules.
- **Blog** · [HumanLayer is joining Factory](https://www.humanlayer.dev/blog/humanlayer-joins-factory)
  (HumanLayer, 2026-11-04).
- **Blog** · [show-me: a coding agent skill for compact visual representations](https://www.humanlayer.dev/blog/show-me-skill)
  (HumanLayer, 2026-08-12). The Show Me skill from "align visually".
- **Video** · [Nov 12 Mainstage livestream, from about 8:15:20](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9JtCCZP2MQ&t=29720s)
  (full-day Mainstage livestream, not a per-talk video; the offset is approximate).

## Gaps

- LinkedIn (from the roster) answered 999 with no page title; not published.
- The manifesto page carries no publication date.
- No Factory-side announcement found; HumanLayer's own post is linked.
- The SlopCodeBench paper "just put up today" is not identified with certainty.
- The anti-slop lint repo he recommends is now named in the transcript
  ("Dylan Mulroy, who's a principal engineer. Cloudflare anti-slop"); not
  searched, as the dossier is at its six-resource limit.
- No per-talk recording or slides yet. The dossier rechecks every 6 hours until
  72 hours after the event, then daily.